Orlando Figuera
Venezuelan killed during the 2017 protests
Orlando Figuera Esparragoza (1996 – 4 June 2017) was a young Venezuelan attacked during the 2017 protests in the country. Before his death, Orlando blamed the attack on a group of people who were feuding with him for work-related reasons: "Malandrín"; "Pecas"; "Menor"; "Oriental" and "Mono". The day after Orlando Figuera's death, Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz denied that Figuera was the victim of a hate crime or attacked for being a Chavista, as alleged by the government version. As of 2022, no person has been tried for Figuera's murder.
Death
According to investigations conducted by the Venezuelan Public Ministry's Office, on May 20, 2017, in the Altamira urbanization of the Chacao municipality of Caracas, Orlando Figuera, 22 years old, found himself in a protest scene with a subject with whom he had previously had an altercation over a job vacancy in Parque Miranda, who upon seeing him assaulted him with a melee weapon and began shouting at the crowd and accusing him of stealing so that he was assaulted.
According to information provided by the Attorney General's Office in the Balance of victims killed and injured during demonstrations in April-June 2017:
(...) he encountered a subject with whom he had had a previous altercation and who had injured him with a knife over a work place in Parque Miranda. Upon seeing him, the man immediately assaulted him with a knife causing him a wound and began to shout to the demonstrators who were nearby "this one was stealing" so that the crowd attacked him physically and verbally. At that moment he received several stab wounds, one person sprayed gasoline on him and set him on fire.
Subsequently, Figuera was assisted by members of Salud Chacao and taken to the Domingo Luciani Hospital in El Llanito, where authorities took Orlando's statement. Figuera was admitted to the hospital with first and second degree burns in 80% of his body, as well as with several stab wounds.
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